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All roads should lead to Madagascar !

If all roads lead to Rome as they say, We would have liked to be able to say that all roads should lead to Madagascar, the fourth largest island of the world, also called Island of contrasts, The Nature island, reasons why we chose the name Nature and Culture Madagascar (NCM)…

The biodiversity richness is incomparable, and Madagascar is one of the few countries in Africa to have a written history.
No one can say how long it would take to visit, enjoy and explore the Malagasy nature and learn culture.
Since touristically speaking, There is everything but snow, another name is then assigned : the small Continent.

Its relief, composed of a chain of mountains of Northern South has created several varieties of landscapes.
Agriculture, crafts, the habits and customs are other advantages not less important than its natural parks and reserves.

So travel with us, you will see and learn the maximum, because we'll get out of the beaten paths.
You will experience the rare moments of life which make dream and make you want to return to relive them.

Madagascar has a really unique endemic flora reported to the area of the country, with including more than a thousand species of Orchid.
Its flora is rich in 490 indigenous genera of trees and Tall Shrubs whose 161 are endemic to Madagascar and the islands of the archipelago of the Comoros (Schatz,2000).
The endemic genera are represented by 940 species and the 329 other non-endemic by genres 3280 species on which 95 % are endemic.
Thus on the 4220 species of trees and Tall Shrubs Malagasy, 96 % are endemic, an extraordinarily high level of specific endemism.
Three families that are the Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae represent nearly one third of the kinds of trees and Tall Shrubs of Madagascar.

The fauna of Madagascar, as flora, is very rich.
Indeed the present between 80 % and 90 % endemic species.
This concept of endemism although not inaccurate remains subjective, Since dependent taxonomic level (Species, genus, family, order) from which the observer moves and the surface or considered medium.
Many specific taxa (Daubentonia) or generic (Brookesia), are strictly endemic to Madagascar, but also, more rarely at the level of the family (Opluridae) and thus reach rates of endemism close or equal 100 %.

The island of Madagascar is considered a Hotspot of biodiversity, This exceptional originality is due especially to the fact that Madagascar is completely isolated in the Indian Ocean since the end of the Cretaceous (84 million years), cause of adaptive radiation and migration of the animal world.

Hotel★★★ Gourmet restaurant Coco Lodge Majunga encourages you to visit this magnificent island that is Madagascar.